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: This article is about the year 6. For other uses, see 6 (number).

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Iudaea and Moesia become Roman provinces; Syria is guarded by legions X Fretensis, III Gallica, VI Ferrata, and XII Fulminata.
• Augustus sets up a special treasury, the aerarium militare to pay bonuses to retiring legion veterans.
• Tiberius makes Carnuntum his base of operations against Maroboduus; The Roman legion XX Valeria Victrix fights with Tiberius against the Marcomanni.
• the Pannonians, with the Dalmatians and other Illyrian tribes, revolted, only to be overcome by Tiberius after a hard-fought three year long campaign.
• The building of a Roman fort starts the current city of Wiesbaden.
• Quirinius conducts a census in Judea (according to Josephus), which results in a revolt in the province, led by Judas the Galilean, and supported by the Pharisee Sadoq. The revolt is repressed, and the rebels are crucifed, but it results in the birth of the Zealot movement, the members of which regard God as their only master.
• Due to a food shortage in Rome, Augustus doubles the corn rations distributed to the people.
• Due to a catastrophic fire in Rome, the barracks system is created to allow quicker response in the case of emergencies.

Asia

• Accession of Ru Zi Ying of the Han Dynasty in China and start of Jushe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
• Candidates for political office in China must take civil-service examinations.

Births

• Jesus, usually considered the latest possible year of birth, based on the Quirinius census in that year
• Nero Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder

Deaths

• Cleopatra Selene (II), Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya

 

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